Friday, June 20, 2014

Adjetives

      Good morning! Today we are going to talk about adjetives in English because Lesson 12 precisely focused on them.  Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person, place or thing in the sentence. Adjectives nearly always appear immediately before the noun or noun phrase that they modify. Sometimes they appear in a string of adjectives, and when they do, they appear in a set order according to category. When indefinite pronouns — such as something, someone, anybody — are modified by an adjective, the adjective comes after the pronoun:
    Ex.1: Anyone capable of doing something horrible to someone nice should be punished.
    Ex.2: Something wicked this way comes.
And there are certain adjectives that, in combination with certain words, are always "postpositive" (coming after the thing they modify):
     Ex.3: The president elect, heir apparent to the Glitzy fortune, lives in New York proper.
  Adjectives are often used to describe the degree of modification.
  The adjective forms are positive, comparative, and superlative:
-This tree is tall. (positive)
-That tree is taller. (comparative)
-The last tree in the row is the tallest. (superlative)
  A handful of adjectives have irregular forms of positive, comparative, and superlative usage.
  These include good/better/best, bad/worse/worst, little/less/least, much-many-some/more/most, far/further/furthest: My lunch was good, hers was better, and yours was the best.

   This was the list provided by Spellingcity.com and I did not know the meaning of some words:

----------- suave, esponjoso

------------ vacío




------------ inteligente


------------ pegajoso




------------- cortés


I invite you to search lists with new adjectives to expand your vocabulary.

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